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All right, so first of all: I don’t like pancakes. I never have, even as a child. To me they’re just thick, doughy syrup sponges. Waffles and french toast, on the other hand, are be a totally different story, but the pancakes have just never done it for me. Until now.

My kids (like most normal people) love pancakes! I have made them for them from scratch at home for years, and they have always been happy with the results. However, we decided to put our son on a gluten-free diet a few weeks ago for some issues he has been experiencing (more about that to come at a later date), so here was a challenge for me to make some yummy gluten-free pancakes that he and I could eat and the rest of the family would enjoy as well.

The results were unanimous: BEST PANCAKES EVER. I hope you’ll agree.

Now, I avoid grains, and these do include brown rice flour, so if you’re paleo or otherwise grain intolerant, use a different grain-free, gluten-free flour in place of it. I just HAD to try these, though – I can’t go posting on a blog about something I haven’t experienced first-hand (!) – and the couple bites I had, without syrup or other topping, might I add, were just delicious. They’re a bit crispy at the edges, soft on the inside and really flavorful. Gluten, dairy and egg free, of course.

INGREDIENTS

brown rice flour, 3/4 cup

sorghum flour, 3/4 cup

tapioca flour, 1/2 cup

baking powder, 4 teaspoons

cinnamon, 2 teaspoons

fine sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon

coconut milk, 2 cups

coconut sugar, 2 tablespoons

vanilla extract, 1 tablespoon

organic unsweetened applesauce, generous 1/2 cup

METHOD

Sift flours together into a large mixing bowl.

Add baking powder, cinnamon and salt to the flours, combining well.

Add coconut milk, sugar, vanilla and applesauce to the dry ingredients and mix well, until creamy.

Grease a skillet lightly with coconut oil over medium-high heat.

Pour the batter onto the skillet and cook until the top of the pancake is bubbly all over and the bottom is golden brown. Flip and cook until the other side is golden brown as well.

That’s it! You can eat these just as they are, or fancy them up with whatever pancake toppings you prefer.